About This Item:

• Acrylic + Latex Paint, Black Pastel and Shellac on Canvas

• Black Frame No Glass

• 12” L x 1.5” W x 15” H

Imaginary Friend #2 by Douglas Max Utter was created with acrylic and latex paint, black pastel and a small amount of shellac on canvas, and is presented floating in black frame. It is signed on the back of the canvas. Douglas’ abstract impressions of the figure are hauntingly beautiful; they represent connections to human emotions and moments in history.

Douglas Max Utter is an award winning Cleveland based artist and writer, whose work has been shown extensively since the mid 1980’s, with over forty one- person shows in Cleveland, New York, Phoenix and Germany. Utter’s work in painting and criticism has been recognized with a 2011 Creative Workforce Fellowship, three Individual Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, the Best Painting Award at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show (1987), and journalism awards from the Cleveland Press Club and the Poets and Writers Guild of Greater Cleveland. He is the recipient of a 2013 Cleveland Arts Prize, Lifetime Achievement Award.